If only George Santos and Bill Simmons had my parents, they wouldn’t be facing down a hailstorm of condemnation for circumventing the basic rules and regulations of dubious “prediction markets” and online gambling.(要是乔治·桑托斯和比尔·西蒙斯有我这样的父母，他们就不会因为规避可疑的“预测市场”和在线赌博的基本规则而面临铺天盖地的谴责。) Kalshi just banned the former congressman George Santos(美国前国会议员，因丑闻被逐) from its service and he was forced to pay back his winnings after he was accused of the dumb person’s version of insider trading(内幕交易). He bet on himself to not attend the State of the Union(国情咨文) address, then conveniently(恰好，碰巧) didn’t go. For his trouble, he won (and will be forced to relinquish(放弃，交出)) more than $17,000; he’ll also have to pay more than $80,000 in total fines(罚款) from Kalshi and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
要是乔治·桑托斯和比尔·西蒙斯有我这样的父母，他们就不会因为规避可疑的“预测市场”和在线赌博的基本规则而面临铺天盖地的谴责。Kalshi刚刚将前国会议员乔治·桑托斯从其服务中封禁，他在被指控犯有“傻瓜版内幕交易”后被迫退还赢得的钱。他押注自己不会出席国情咨文演讲，然后果然没去。为此，他赢了（并将被迫交出）超过1.7万美元；他还将支付Kalshi和商品期货交易委员会开出的总计超过8万美元的罚款。
Bill Simmons, the sports commentator(评论员), podcast host, and founder of The Ringer(体育与流行文化网站), had a different story.
比尔·西蒙斯，体育评论员、播客主持人、The Ringer网站创始人，则有不同的故事。
While prediction markets are federally legal because they’re considered financial exchange services and not gambling, FanDuel’s gambling application, called Sportsbook, and other sports-adjacent services are legal in some states and not others.(虽然预测市场在联邦层面是合法的，因为它们被视为金融交易服务而非赌博，但FanDuel的赌博应用Sportsbook以及其他与体育相关的服务在某些州合法，在其他州则不合法。) Sportsbook is illegal in California, which is inconvenient for anyone who spends most of their time worried about such intellectual pursuits as “the spread(让分)”, “the line(盘口)”, and “the juice(抽水，佣金)”. Contrary to(与……相反) what you might be thinking, those are real gambling terms, not nicknames for pro wrestlers(职业摔跤手).
虽然预测市场在联邦层面是合法的，因为它们被视为金融交易服务而非赌博，但FanDuel的赌博应用Sportsbook以及其他与体育相关的服务在某些州合法，在其他州则不合法。Sportsbook在加州是非法的，这对于那些大部分时间都在担心“让分”、“盘口”和“抽水”等智力追求的人来说很不方便。与你可能想的相反，这些是真正的赌博术语，而不是职业摔跤手的绰号。